"How limited one must be to make rules like that. And how educated we have been into the Hollywood understanding of what narrative is and how it should be delivered. My answer was, 'Why not? Why can't it be?'"

As Chicago’s unacknowledged laureate, since winning the National Book Award for poetry for his "Performance of Becoming Human," Borzutzky's work has an interesting dividing line—a reality of thought versus imagination, or poetry and politics.

A story about a man reconciling that death is a ridiculous joke—“all the striving, lusting, dreaming, suffering, working, hoping, yearning, mourning, suddenly revealed itself to be an accelerating countdown to nightfall.”

Two seemingly unrelated events converging like this resonated for me not only in connecting the two industries in which I’ve cast my fate, but in the way they reflect on two businesses that have been given up for dead according to prevailing sentiment.

Like a shared urban workspace, ours is a city of communication and collaboration that brings together extraordinary artists, designers, makers and entrepreneurs to help one another grow their creative vision as they elevate the city’s art, design and culture scene.

Newcity sits down with curator Naomi Beckwith to discuss the work of Howardena Pindell on the occasion of the artist's first major survey which opened in late February at the Museum of Contemporary Art.

Along with co-founding partner Craig Reschke, Lui runs Future Firm, a homegrown architecture and design research office focused on how creativity and innovation can radically transform our lived experiences. She will be serving as co-curator for "Dimensions of Citizenship," the exhibition that will represent the United States in the U.S. Pavilion at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale.

Published at Newcity DesignOn Wednesday, February 28, 2018By Vasia Rigou